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Just about every North American metropolis adidas adizero dominate has suffered this loss of faith. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago — and those are just the biggest cities in the U.S. Montreal’s done it a couple of times. Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Quebec City have watched popular pro teams wither and die.
But Toronto, for all the stick this city takes, Toronto doesn’t turn on its teams.
Okay, a few qualifications. The Toronto Blizzard of the NASL went out of business, but not before the league folded around them. The Toronto Huskies lasted a year in the predecessor to the NBA back in the ’40s, but what’s one year? That’s like mourning the loss of a great love affair after the first date.
The architect of the stunt was the team’s promotions manager, Howard Freeman, who had commissioned a local school’s shop class to build a six-foot papier-maché volcano.
“We had traded for Maurice Lucas the year before from Portland, and he said he had a bunch of Mount St. Helens ash,” Freeman said in a recent interview. “Honestly, it could have come from his fireplace, for all we knew.”
Triggered by a hired dwarf wielding a fire extinguisher loaded with a lebron 9 shoes for sale chemical compound, the makeshift volcano discharged without a hitch during halftime of a Nets overtime victory on Feb. 20, 1981. It was, in retrospect, perfect imagery for the Nets’ 35-year run in New Jersey, which will end on Monday night at Prudential Center in Newark. Many eruptions, little fallout on a largely indifferent fan base.
While often bad, the Nets were never boring. Be it in Piscataway, East Rutherford or Newark, they were a reporter’s dream team — uncommonly accessible and forever afflicted with a case of arrested development.
From the time the Nets returned from Long Island to the Garden State — where they made their debut as the Americans a decade earlier in the American Basketball Association — an explosion, or implosion, could occur anytime, anywhere.
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